my bike was stolen! (now recovered)

lkoky
lkoky Posts: 17
edited October 2007 in Road beginners
please share my pain.

my less than one year old Specialzed Tricross sport was stolen this morning.

Some scum climbed into my back yard and used a few bricks & stones smashed open the lock chaining the bike and took off with it.

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  • willbevan
    willbevan Posts: 1,241
    b**tards!!!!!

    I've never had a bikestolen,but had my car stolen, i hope it was covered:S

    Will
    Road - BTwin Sport 2 16s
    MTB - Trek Fuel 80
    TT - Echelon

    http://www.rossonwye.cyclists.co.uk/
  • richardast
    richardast Posts: 273
    Commiserations.
    What area do you live in?
  • ash68
    ash68 Posts: 320
    bad luck mate, hope the b*stard falls off and breaks his neck. :evil:
  • donaldinho
    donaldinho Posts: 103
    Damn! That's a nice bike.
    You have my full sympathy mate.
    The Green Goblin

    Onix Bira
  • cooper.michael1
    cooper.michael1 Posts: 1,787
    Bad luck, i hope your home insurance covers it...if it does its a good time of the year to piack up a bargain.
  • richardjallen
    richardjallen Posts: 691
    Someone came into my garden and nicked mine a few months ago. I was even in at the time and heard it being wheeled away but by the time I got the door open they were gone. It was not as nice as yours but I know how it feels. Other people who have been in your situation do share your pain - I'm one at least, although it makes me more angry.

    After having two bikes stolen in two years I currently have the mindset that the level of theft is being maintained so that people have to spend their money to replace the stolen items and attempt to protect themselves from theft with locks, insurance etc. I did not buy a new bike after the second one was stolen. I got a scratched up second hand one and will replace bits as necessary. In some countries people don't even lock their bikes in city centres.
  • lkoky
    lkoky Posts: 17
    I live in Cambridge. Unfortunately it is a shared house properties so cant get insurance cover (or cost too high). So I will have swallow this one pretty hard.

    This also means I will have to stop cycling completely as there is no way I am going get a new bike while I am in this house. This is even more painful.....
  • loobster
    loobster Posts: 62
    There are some wankers around. I'm really sorry to hear about that.
  • richardast
    richardast Posts: 273
    Is it registered on Immobilise? If so, make sure you report it stolen. If not, register it now and report it stolen straight away.
    It's free and the police do checks when they stop people on bikes they think might be nicked.
    You never know, you might get it back.
  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    I do sympathise with you, mine was nicked outside a bike shop (!) but fortunately was recovered by police, (the thief's girlfriend shopped him).

    Hope you have some luck getting yours back.
  • lkoky
    lkoky Posts: 17
    in a rather bizzare twist of events, I have my stolen bike back :)

    This afternoon I received an email from Cambridgeshire police asking
    whether my bike was stolen. This email came completely out of the
    blue. Because I am yet to report my bike as stolen to the police.

    Basically, police seized the bike as they found the bike in
    "suspicious circumstnaces". Then they contacted the manufacturer of
    the bike, and the manufacturer referred the police to the shop in
    Edinburg (I bought the bike online) which traced all the way back to
    me.

    Cant really praise enough the good work done by cambriggeshire police :):)

    Lesson learned:
    Registered your valuable property online https://www.immobilise.com/
    keep the original receipt and take a few photos to prove you owne it.
  • Panter
    Panter Posts: 299
    Awesome news 8)

    excellent stuff, all too rare a story these days too. The police finding it I mean.


    Cheers

    Chris :)
    Racing snakes. It's not big, and it's not clever ;)
  • richardjallen
    richardjallen Posts: 691
    This has restored some of my faith in the authorities.
  • fossyant
    fossyant Posts: 2,549
    Wow - one clever/clued up bobby/admin person there....credit where credit is due...
  • ash68
    ash68 Posts: 320
    pleased you've been reunited with your loved one :D
  • richardast
    richardast Posts: 273
    Fantastic news.
    One in the eye for those passers by who were probably watching the police taking the bike off it's new owner and saying, "Haven't they got anything better to do than harrass cyclists!" :roll:
    Police station yards and property stores are full of unclaimed bikes with untraceable owners. Immobilise is the way forward for sure.
  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    lkoky wrote:
    in a rather bizzare twist of events, I have my stolen bike back :)

    This afternoon I received an email from Cambridgeshire police asking
    whether my bike was stolen. This email came completely out of the
    blue. Because I am yet to report my bike as stolen to the police.

    Basically, police seized the bike as they found the bike in
    "suspicious circumstnaces". Then they contacted the manufacturer of
    the bike, and the manufacturer referred the police to the shop in
    Edinburg (I bought the bike online) which traced all the way back to
    me.

    Cant really praise enough the good work done by cambriggeshire police :):)

    Lesson learned:
    Registered your valuable property online https://www.immobilise.com/
    keep the original receipt and take a few photos to prove you owne it.

    I also had a bike stolen once and got it back. Since the theft had been near a bike store (Decathlon, Surrey Quays) I called in and mentioned it and gave a description and my mobile number to the in-store mechanics there as I was passing on my way to report it stolen at the police station.

    3 weeks later I was out on another bike on a training ride in the hills near Dorking when I got a call on my mobile from a policeman, phoning from Decathlon after they had been called in by the staff – someone had brought in a bike exactly of the kind I had told them about (Bianchi MTB) to get a front wheel puncture repaired.

    So I had to describe a few things unique to my bike – there's a certain dent in the top tube from a crash on rocks at Coed-y-Brenin, plus some extra components I had added, and these together were enough for the police to arrest the kid.

    I nipped back home, got the frame number details from home and went to pick up the bike. After 3 weeks with chavs it was a bit of wreck, but all was fixable – just new rear brakes front chainrings required.
    Tour de France
  • APIII
    APIII Posts: 2,010
    Amazing! It's all too easy to write the authorities off as not giving a toss about things like stolen bikes. Good to hear of a happy ending for a change
  • APIII
    APIII Posts: 2,010
    Amazing! It's all too easy to write the authorities off as not giving a toss about things like stolen bikes. Good to hear of a happy ending for a change
  • giant_man
    giant_man Posts: 6,878
    Yes well i have to say the Police were very helpful when mine was knicked then recovered, had to go to police station to pick it up and treated very well.
  • emaichael
    emaichael Posts: 109
    giant mancp wrote:
    I do sympathise with you, mine was nicked outside a bike shop (!) but fortunately was recovered by police, (the thief's girlfriend shopped him).

    Hope you have some luck getting yours back.

    i'm worried that might happen to me... so i just bring my bike into the bike shop, hehe.
    (even if the shop owner thinks i need repairs i dont care, i'd rather keep it safe if i dont have a lock handy)
  • emaichael
    emaichael Posts: 109
    [/quote]I nipped back home, got the frame number details from home and went to pick up the bike. After 3 weeks with chavs it was a bit of wreck, but all was fixable – just new rear brakes front chainrings required.[/quote]

    damn chavs, i'd kill myself if i new my bike had been owned by them for that long.... makes me want to cry thinking about my scr being in the hands of some... chav....death to any bike stealer's! i tell u what, i remember a guy outside the college i go to every day desided he would try and take my front wheel off... i saw him through the damn window having a gow at taking the back wheel off, by the time he had managed to swivel the quick release fully enough off, i was out there giving him something to keep forever...
    a really hard punch on the back of his head. combined with a kick at the same time. he just ran.... i didn't even see his face, he was facing away from me all that time :( i described him to everyone at the college but know one knew who he was, and i never saw anyone in the same cloths as him, or hair style. (i learnt from this experience, and now put my extra long bike lock through my bike wheel, instead of just through my front wheel and frame) (even though i though most people couldnt be ar'sed trying to take the back wheel off....
    also check your bike before you ride it, if you have quick release wheels, as you don't know who could of tampered with them while you were in your office and your bike being outside all those hours. (there are sadO's who get a kick out of thinking someone might fall off there bike.... even if your going 30-40mph...)

    chav piece O shlts liek. go burn.
  • emaichael
    emaichael Posts: 109
    ash68 wrote:
    pleased you've been reunited with your loved one :D

    hehe, i felt the same when i found my cycling glove i lost 2months ago! it was still in ok condition to! didnt even look dirty.... if nothing a bit cleaner, less oil on it.
  • richardast
    richardast Posts: 273
    emaichael wrote:
    ... i was out there giving him something to keep forever...
    a really hard punch on the back of his head. combined with a kick at the same time. he just ran.... i didn't even see his face, he was facing away from me all that time

    Yep, you're a regular Bruce Willis.
    :roll:

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